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Discover how to determine the ideal percentage of a population for a representative sample to ensure accurate data analysis with minimal sampling error.

A new study published in Psychology of Popular Media suggests that human romantic attraction to fictional characters may ...

A new in-plate, zero-disruption design enables reproducible organoid culture, downstream processing, and high-resolution imaging in a single 3D cell culture plate MONMOUTH JUNCTION, N.J., Feb. 9, 2026 ...

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Discover how sample size neglect impacts statistical conclusions and learn to avoid this cognitive bias studied by renowned experts like Tversky and Kahneman.

Data center projects in DeForest, Mount Pleasant, and Port Washington have raised understandable concerns from residents. It makes sense to be skeptical of big companies claiming job and revenue ...

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Google is ending its dark web report, with scans stopping Jan. 15, 2026. Google says it is shifting to tools with clearer, actionable guidance. Other dark web monitoring tools and scanners are still ...

A Durham County judge is asking the Chapel Hill Police Department to find a missing blood sample involved in the case of a University of North Carolina student killed at an apartment 13 years earlier.

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to exist on Bennu, a small asteroid that swings by our planet about every six ...

A new analysis tries to calculate the coming environmental footprint of AI in the US and finds that the ideal sites for data centers aren’t where they’re being built. An extensive new analysis looks ...